Loretta Young Quotes
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I don't read the critics.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.
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In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
